Description
I started taking chess seriously at 32, around 400 Elo. A year later, I've reached the 1500 level—and today one of my wins scored 98.3% accuracy.
This episode follows four wins from my latest 15+10 session, including that 13-move game, the calculations behind my decisions, and a much longer pawn-race finish. Before play even started, Chess.com returned 16 rating points, taking me from 1432 to 1448.
I'm 33 now and still working toward 2000 Elo. Follow the climb: the progress, the setbacks, and what I'm learning along the way.
Session rating: 1448 → 1467 (+19 from play). The separate +16 refund happened before the games.
Day 372 · Recorded November 8, 2026. These are the four wins from a five-game session; the loss is not included. The 98.3% score belongs to one game, not the whole session.
0:00 The refund and the road back
0:45 Win 1: a tactical breakthrough
5:50 Win 2: 98.3% accuracy
10:21 Win 3: the pawn race
20:10 Win 4: finishing the session
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